The Posture When Sleeping Next To Your Partner Speaks Of The Quality Of The Relationship
The position in which couples sleep in bed and the distance between them can be an indicator of the level of happiness and fulfillment that the relationship is experiencing.
At least that is what emerges from a study led by the American psychologist Richard Wiseman from Hertfordshire University (United Kingdom), and whose results were published at the Edinburgh International Science Festival.
Sleeping posture indicates the quality of your relationship
It seems that our sleeping position could predict a series of factors related to our way of being, as we saw in the previous article “The position you sleep in says a lot about your personality.” It is also important to remember the 8 serious health consequences of sleeping a few hours: sleeping is a basic function for our brain and body to rest.
Data revealed by the study
Now, this research has managed to obtain interesting conclusions after examining the habits of more than a thousand people regarding the quality of the emotional relationship and its correlation with certain rest habits:
2% sleep with a separation of 75 centimeters or more.
Some curious conclusions
The investigation collects the legacy of the psychiatrist Samuel Dunkell, who already developed certain concepts and studied the way couples develop in the moment of sleep and compared it with the degree of happiness in the relationship. He established that The couples who have the sweetest moment and who live the relationship to the fullest are those who sleep face to face and maintain physical contact
If you don’t touch each other while you rest, a good indicator of the quality of your relationship is if you sleep facing the same side. “93% of couples who sleep in contact reported feeling very happy in the relationship, while the percentage dropped to 68% among couples who do not sleep while maintaining physical contact,” says Wiseman, who maintains that couples who sleep at a distance greater than 75 centimeters they expressed their unhappiness in the relationship.
The research also managed to obtain interesting conclusions: people with the highest scores in extraversion are those who prefer to sleep close to their partner, while the most creative participants tend to lie on their left side. Dunkell discovered years ago that sleeping on your back was an indicator of self-confidence and extraversion, or that sleeping on your stomach was a sign of perfectionist people. Sleeping with your legs crossed may indicate that you are a person with a tendency to commit, and the fetal position is related to indecision, below-average self-esteem, and a certain predisposition to suffer from anxiety.
